NAFDAC Seals off illegal Mosquito Coil Chinese Factory In Kano

                            

 

The National Agency For Food and Drug Administration and Control has seal off a Chinese Company producing  Unregistered Mosquitoes Coils in Kano.

The Mosquitoes Coil is sold under the brand Name Wavetide: Plant Fiber Mosquito coil in the Kano State market.

NAFDAC Chief Regulation Officer Mr Ake Ayodele Paul told newsmen on Wednesday that the factory was officially sealed on September 28.he said the Management refused to Register the product despite Invitation to come Forward to do so.

Ayodele who head the Enforcement and Investigation Unit of NAFDAC said there is no way NAFDAC can verify if the chemical used in producing the coil is harmful or not since they refuse to Register the product.

 

“We tried to check the chemicals and we discovered that the chemicals were labeled in Chinese. So, as an agency, there is no way we could tell whether the chemicals were poisonous or not.”
“We even asked them to give us the details of the chemicals used for the production of the coils, but they did not seem to have enough proficiency in English to analyze the chemical components of the coils they were manufacturing.”
“They told us that they were using one chemical, but we saw that some of these chemicals were green; some of them were in blue containers and in yellow containers… They claimed to be producing the coils in China whereas it is produced in Dakata here in Kano.”
“For you to be producing an item here in Kano, with no [English] signboard outside your compound but choose to bear a Chinese address, certainly you are not doing something right.”
He charged the public to insist on NAFDAC’s registration number before they buy or consume any product.